LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF UNDERSTATEMENT IN MODERN ENGLISH by V. G. Ivanova

“…Besides, some stylistic and pragmalinguistic aspects of Understatement are analyzed from the perspective of a distancing strategy. The researcher is primarily interested in Understatement as a lingua-cultural category relying on historically stipulated cultural traditions of Anglo-Saxon society which gave rise to the forming of the British national character, and which reflect age, gender and social differences of the English. …”
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